Knight by Ashleigh Jameson

There was once a princess who lived in a huge castle.

Like two sides of a coin, what is usually the beginning of a lovely fairy tale can just as easily be the start of a sordid nightmare.
My uncle dragged me away from London, the city I had grown to love. He dragged me away from Jax, the man who rules my every waking thought.
He now keeps me, his orphaned mafia niece, locked up in a fancy prison. Awaiting the day I’m to be wedded off to an accomplice of his. I’m nothing more than a bargaining chip in this cruel world of men. An item, to be exchanged for money or power.
I have no name nor identity. No wants nor needs.
On the verge of my wedding, catastrophe strikes. I’m once again traded away against my will, this time to a monster who dwells in London. A man powerful enough to make my fearsome uncle tremble.

A knight, from a ruthless family who once ruled London’s underworld.
A knight, who still rules my every waking thought.
Jax isn’t the man I left behind. The gangster with a cheeky smile has morphed into something else with the passage of time. Something sinister, and more vicious than I could have imagined. He now holds me in his lair, a giant penthouse, while awaiting a debt owed by my uncle.
Collateral. That’s what I am.
But who are we to refuse the heart’s demands? It will make its needs known, one way or the other. It will scream and fight when our minds and bodies resist.

As repressed feelings resurface between my monster and I, our lives will collide in dangerous ways. We let each other go once, against our will. This time, we’ll fight anything and everything that threatens to pull us apart. Jax ignites a strength in me that I never knew existed, and a will of iron to go along with it.
When my abusive uncle and drug lord fiancé comes to collect, they will learn that power is as easily lost as it is gained. This will be my lesson to them.
Because no matter how a fairy tale begins, the princess must live happily ever after.